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If Gray is actually responsible for getting Walmart to add another two, then I would say that he just racked up his best (and only) actual mayoral accomplishment.
I am still going to sign the petition for his recall.
B. Are there even 6 wal-marts in Fairfax county?
My vote? More dragons.
Side fact: there is currently only one WalMart inside the Beltway: in Landover Hills off the BW Pkwy and Route 450.
Interesting side note, the protestors have become more aware of just how difficult it is to *be* homeless, and maybe that'll help us treat the homeless more humanely and with more support rather than like an eyesore to be covered up.
Answer: About 10. 1 or 2 are real close to county border.
The only problem is that governments tend to be poor negotiators and get stuck with ridiculous exclusivity deals whereby they sell away the future as if it will always be like the past (I'm sure no one was thinking of bikeshare ads when DC sold exclusive rights to advertising on public space).
RE: Walmart
This could be a game changer for DC. Instead of DC being a net importer of retail goods from the suburbs, they could turn things around and start being a net exporter to the close-in suburbs. As mentioned previously, there are no other walmarts inside the beltway. However, adding 6 walmarts to DC could have a significant negative impact on retail in PG county as retail dollars flow from that county to DC.
Also, instead of putting walmart on NY Ave, it would have been great to put it at the vacant Safeway on Rhode Island. That said, the NY Ave store is perfectly situated for sucking in retail spending from MD.
That's just asking for trouble with the Marine Corps barracks so close by. It's like putting an abortion clinic next door to a church. It might be legal, but ...
Okay, I'll bite. How is it asking for trouble?
Are you worried that the Marines have no willpower and will all get stoned? (unlikely)
Or are you worried that they'll be so offended that they'll shirk their duty in order to picket outside? (also unlikely. and are Marines typically a group considered diametrically opposed to marijuana?)
And what does putting an abortion clinic next door to a church have to do with anything? Are you worried that it will make the abortions too convenient for the parishioners?
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This is not a trivial issue, and I am not minimizing the difficulties of being homeless. Again, we do not allow the homeless to camp out in city parks, because this ruins the parks for everyone else -- which is pretty much what the campers in McPherson Square are doing.
The type of people that find homeless people to be icky eyesores are not the type of people to be attending Occupy events in the first place.
I didn't assume that. Quite the opposite. The proposal to put a clinic in the middle of where the Marines are living (and standing guard) is a situation where the 'hippies' will be coming straight to them. And they'll be high ...
I.e., It's creating a volatile situation that didn't need to be created.
The stoned hippies will go around looking for Marines to beat up?
I agree that many advocates of medical marijuana are using sympathy for the chronicly ill as a stepping stone to increase overall access and break down prohibitionary laws, but it doesn't negate the benefits to some people. As much as Cap Hill folks will bemoan the presence of a fast food joint opening (or existing), I can't see this one passing without a big neighborhood fuss.
It would be like suggesting the car is the solution to all of our transportation issues. Oh wait. My fault, I get where you're coming from now...
The danger was always that these new retail establishments would create "dead-zones" of surface parking that would curtail any real renaissance for decades to come.
They're arguably less horrible than the number of CVS' we've seen springing up like rectal polyps over the last two decades.
Lance, by that thinking, there was no medicine prior to the invention of the pill, and that of the socially costly USDA mercantilist agenda of forcing people to not use plants.
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*Professor, Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture, Academic Affairs Office, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, Peoples Republic of China.1. INTRODUCTION
Grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) have been grown in China for more than 2000 years. However, grape production was negligible until the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. The area under cultivation of grapes and their production were only about 3,200 hectares and 39,000 tonnes, respectively. The government paid great attention to improvement of the quality of life of the people after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. Following rapid economic growth, fruit production, including grape production increased rapidly in the country, especially since the 1980s. The land area under grapes and their production in 1998 were respectively estimated to be 55.6 and 60.5 times greater than in 1949. This paper presents the current status of grape cultivation, the development of the wine industry, advances in cultural techniques, the potential for expansion, and some suggestions for the future development of grape production and the wine industry in China.
Following apple, citrus, pear and banana, grape production now ranks fifth in fruit production in the Peoples Republic of China. The area under vineyards was estimated to be 178,000 hectares in 1998. To examine the evolution of the area under cultivation of grapes after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, two rapid development periods can be observed during the eighties and last few years of the last century. The land area under cultivation of grapes increased steadily from 31,600 to 146,000 hectares during the first rapid development period from 1980 to 1988, with an average increase of about 14,300 hectares per year. Then the grape extents decreased from 1989 to about 24,000 hectares in the following 3 years. Under the influence of the red wine rush in the Asian countries, grape growing again became the focus of peoples attention in China from the early nineties. Thus, the area under cultivation of grapes continued to increase again from 1992 to 20,200 hectares by 1998 (about 15 percent more when compared with that of 1997). The area for the other four main fruit crops, however, decreased by 216,800 hectares for apple, 5,540 hectares for pear and 39,000 hectares for citrus.
The annual grape production has increased steadily for the last 20 years. It attained 2,358200 tonnes in 1998, 18.7 times more than in 1979. Most of this production was for table grapes and only about 10 percent for wine making and another 10 percent for raisins. The main areas of expansion are located in the north. The five leading provinces that contributed more than two thirds of the total grape production in the country in 1998 were Xingjiang, Hebei, Shangdong, Liaoning and Henan (Table 1).
Table 1. Main Grape-Growing Regions and their Production, 1998
Vineyard Area |
Grape Production |
1000 ha |
% of the Country total |
1000 tonnes |
% of the Country total |
Xingjiang |
32.0 |
18.0 |
555.4 |
23.6 |
Hebei |
31.5 |
17.7 |
404.4 |
17.1 |
Shangdong |
20.9 |
11.7 |
269.0 |
11.4 |
Liaoning |
14.2 |
8.0 |
275.6 |
11.7 |
Henan |
11.3 |
6.3 |
153.0 |
6.5 |
Total in China |
178.0 |
100 |
2358.2 |
100 |
Source of Data: China: Yearbook, Agriculture, 1999Although the Chinese have a tradition of consuming alcoholic beverages, China has been very backward in wine industry development. At the time of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, the estimated annual production of wine was about 85 tonnes per year. Although the wine industry has developed rapidly since that time (Table 2), wine production has contributed only a very small fraction towards the total alcoholic beverage production in the country.
Table 2. Development of Wine Production in China from 1949-1997 (the production before 1979 is estimated by converting all alcoholic beverages which are wine or part of which are originating from grape juice).
Year |
1949-1950 |
1954-1955 |
1959-1960 |
1964-1965 |
1969-1970 |
1974-1975 |
1979-1980 |
1984-1985 |
1989-1990 |
1994-1995 |
1997 |
Average/Year (1000 t) |
0.085 |
0.72 |
4.12 |
9.50 |
12.0 |
21.8 |
26.7 |
119.1 |
269.2 |
235.4 |
195.0 |
Among hundreds of grape varieties grown in China, the following are the more important, from an economic point of view:
Table grapes: Niunai (Cows Nipples), Kyoho, Muscat Hamburg, Thompson Seedless, Longyan (Dragon Eyes) Jingxiu, Zana, Rizamat, Fenghuang No 51, Red globe, Jingzhaojing, Jingyu, Italia and Fujiminori.
Wine Grapes: The main varieties for white wine are Chardonnay, Italian Riesling, Ugni blanc, Chenin blanc, Gewurztraminer, Sauvignon blanc, Semillon, White Riesling and Rkatsiteli. The main varieties for red wine are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet franc, Merlot, French blue, Muscat Hamburg, Pinot noir, Syrah, Carignan and Saperavi.
China is fortunate in not having any phylloxera pest problems. Most of the grape planting material used in the country is therefore propagated by cuttings. In some cold areas, however, vines are grafted on cold-resistant rootstocks, such as Beta (a probable hybrid between Vitis riparia and V. labrusca) and lines from Vitis amurensis.
Thorough preparation of the land is essential for successful establishment and good vine growth during the first two to three years because of poor organic matter status in the soil. The land is trenched to a width of 0.6 to 1 m and a depth of 0.8 to 1 m. The distance between the trenches depends on the distance between rows. The soil is mixed with organic matter or other fertilizer and filled back into the trenches before planting.
Young plants are set out in the vineyard in late autumn or early spring before growth begins. The planting season of vines depends upon the climate of the region. To reduce the risk of frost, vines have to be planted in early spring in most areas of north China where it is very cold in winter, while they may be planted in late autumn in the Valley of Yangtze River. The plant spacings used for grapes vary depending on the regions and the training systems. Table 3 presents the general information on the spacing and density used for establishing a new vineyard. Planting density varies from about 1,000 to 5,000 vines per hectare.
Table 3. General Suggestions for Plant Densities to be used for the Establishment of New Vineyards
Region |
Trellis Form |
Spacing between Rows (m) |
Spacing in the Row (m) |
Density Vines per ha |
North China
Pergola |
4.5-5.5 |
0.75-1.0 |
1818-2963 |
Vertical Trellis |
2.5-3.0 |
0.8-1.5 |
2222-5000 |
South China
Pergola |
5.0-6.0 |
1.0-1.5 |
1111-2000 |
Vertical Trellis |
3.0 |
1.0-2.0 |
1666-3333 |
Pergola and vertical trellis are the more popular forms of training used for grape growing in China. The popular training systems in the north are the multi-arm fan system with no trunk used for vertical trellis and the dragon system with a strong permanent cordon where grapevines usually need to be heeled in winter. In south China or in the regions where grapevines need not be heeled in winter, the vertical trellis is frequently used. The multi-arm fan system with a strong trunk, the bilateral cordon system with two strong horizontal cordons, the standard T bar system and the umbrella system are the most commonly used training systems.
Pruning is one of the important aspects of vine management to obtain consistently good yields and fruit quality each growing season. Dormant pruning is done in late autumn or winter before the growth begins. The one-year-old hardwood cuttings can be left as fruiting canes and are cut back to 5 to 9 buds, and sometimes to more than 10 buds if the cane pruning technique is used. For the hardwood cuttings to obtain renewal shoots, they have to be cut back to 2 to 4 buds. Summer pruning is done during early growing season by thinning and pinching.
Several fertilizer applications are usually carried per year in most vineyards. In general, three or four applications of chemical fertilizers are applied after bud break, at flowering, during rapid growth of young fruit, and during the maturation of grape berries. Nitrogenous and phosphorous fertilizer are usually supplied for the first two or three applications while only potash fertilizer is used during the maturation of berries. Moreover, a high quantity of manure (more than 30 t) is often applied after harvest or in late autumn. The last manure application is very important for obtaining a high grape quality because of the rather low content of organic matter in the soil.
Chinas continental climate produces hot, usually rainy summers, and very dry and cold winters. It is therefore necessary to supply supplementary irrigation for growing grapes in most regions. Two supplies of irrigation, one before the vines are heeled and the other one after bud break are obligatory to have a normal growth of the vines and to obtain a good yield. Irrigation is not recommended one to two months before harvest, especially for wine grapes. The climatic conditions are very variable in China. For example, it is very hot and humid in summer in the Yangtze valley, but very dry in the region of Xingjiang. Diseases are therefore, found to be different from one region to another. The main grape diseases in China are given in Table 4 according to their incidence in the various regions.
A few insects can endanger grape production in commercial vineyards. Main grape insects are the comstock mealy bug (Pseudococcus comstocki Kuwanna), scale (Parthenolecanium cormi Borchs), grape leafhopper (Erythroneura apicalis Nawa), grape horn worn (Ampelophaga rubiginosa Bremer et Grey), boston ivy tiger-moth (Seudyra subflava Moore), grape leaf beetle (Oides decempunctata Bilberg), grape erinose mite (Colomerus vitis Pagenstecher), grape bunch mite (Brevipalpus lewisi McGregor), grape clear wing moth (Paranthrene regalis Butler) and grape borer (Xylotrechus pyrrhoderus Bates).
Table 4. Main Grape Diseases Occurring on a Region-Wise Basis
Name |
Causal Organism |
Main Regions where the Disease Occurs |
Anthracnose |
Elsinoe ampelina (de Bary) Shear |
In rainy, humid regions, especially in South China. |
Downy Mildew |
Plasmopara viticola (Berk. et Curt) Berl. et De
Toni |
In all regions of China |
White Rot |
Coniothyrium diplogiella (Sperg.) Sacc. |
In all regions of China |
Bitter Rot |
Glomerella cingulata (Ston.) Spaul. et Schr. |
In all regions of China |
Powdery Mildew |
Uncinula necator (Schw.) Bur. |
In the regions of dry and hot summers, especially in North
China |
Grey Mold |
Botrytis cinerea Persoon |
In Hebei, Shandong, Sichun, Shanghai. |
Dead Arm |
Cryptosporella viticola (Reddick) Shear |
In regions of the Northwest, Beijing, Tianjing,
Hebei. |
Brown Spot |
Pseudocercospora vitis (Lev) Speg. |
In all regions of China, especially in rainy year. |
Axle Blotch |
Physalospora bacoae Cavalra |
In Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Liaoning, Jiangsu,
Guangdong |
Rust |
Phakopsora ampelopsidis Diet. et syd |
In Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichun, Yunnan,
Jiangsu. |
Crown Gall |
Agrobacterium rumefaciens (Smith et Towns)
Conn. |
Especially in Hebei, Beijing, Tiangjing, and the Northeast
region. |
Only several years ago, grape yields were very high in China, especially in the case of table grapes. Many growers obtained very high yields, as much as 40 to 60 t/ha, and sometimes up to 100 t/ha, but obviously at the expense of grape quality. Consequently, sugar content in the grapes was too low to be used for wine making and table grapes were non-marketable or sold at very low prices. In recent years, growers paid more attention to grape quality than to yield. The productivity is now severely controlled in most vineyards. The grapevines usually enter into bearing in the second or third year after planting and mature vines may produce 20 to 30 tonnes per hectare in irrigated vineyards in order to obtain a higher quality of grapes. The general information is given in Table 5 with respect to the date of harvest and the quality characteristics of wine grapes produced in North China (in Pindu, Shandong province).
Table 5. Harvest Date and General Quality of some Wine Grapes Produced in Pindu (Shandong Province)
Cultivar |
Harvest Date Day/Month |
Sugar (Brix) |
Acids (%) |
pH |
Chardonnay |
3/9 |
20 |
7.1 |
3.11 |
Italian Risling |
3/9 |
18 |
7.2 |
3.09 |
Chenin Blanc |
23/9 |
23 |
8.0 |
Cabernet Franc |
2/10 |
24 |
8.0 |
Cabernet Sauvignon |
2/10 |
23 |
8.2 |
Merlot |
2/10 |
24 |
7.4 |
3.20 |
Syrach |
22/9 |
20 |
8.5 |
3.00 |
Gamay Noir |
22/9 |
21 |
8.0 |
Gewurztraminer |
6/9 |
21 |
6.0 |
3.25 |
Sauvignon Blanc |
4/9 |
21 |
8.2 |
3.08 |
Pinot Noir |
22/8 |
16.5 |
7.7 |
3.15 |
Source: Zhusheng Dong, 19927. MARKETING
Most fruits produced in China are traded in the national marketing system. The volume of exported fruits is very small, averaging about 600,000 tonnes per year or 1.2 percent of total national production (Table 6). The situation with regard to grape marketing is the same as for other fruits. 650 tonnes of grapes and 1,100 tonnes of raisins were exported in 1997. This volume of grape exports ranks sixth in fruit exports of the Peoples Republic of China following apples, citrus, pears, bananas and peaches (nectarines included). However, the volume of grapes imported is much more significant if compared with that exported. Nearly 4800 tones of grapes were imported in 1997, some 7.4 times more than that exported. This import was essentially from USA and most of these grapes imported were the Red globe variety. With regard to raisins imported into China, the volume is less than that exported. Nearly 460 tonnes of raisins were imported in 1997, which amounted to about half of that exported.
Table 6. Fruit Exports and Imports in China (1997)
Fruit Crop |
Export |
Import |
Volume (x1000t) |
Value (x1000US$) |
Price (US$/kg) |
Volume (x1000t) |
Value (x1000US$) |
Price (US$/kg) |
Apples |
188.4 |
77441.7 |
0.411 |
11.5 |
3493.6 |
0.308 |
Citrus (oranges, Tangerines etc.) |
223.1 |
7584.00 |
0.340 |
13.8 |
3926.7 |
0.285 |
Pears |
120.0 |
52579.3 |
0.438 |
0.37 |
126.1 |
0.341 |
Bananas |
14.7 |
5364.3 |
0.365 |
549.6 |
146410.4 |
0.266 |
Peaches and Nectarines |
3.7 |
1115.2 |
0.301 |
0.016 |
5.7 |
0.356 |
Grapes |
0.65 |
226.0 |
0.348 |
4.8 |
2221.9 |
0.463 |
Raisins |
1.1 |
1496.0 |
1.36 |
0.46 |
386.9 |
0.841 |
Kiwifruits |
0.016 |
33.0 |
2.062 |
0.88 |
554.3 |
0.630 |
Litchis |
4.8 |
6216.3 |
1.295 |
1.8 |
699.9 |
0.389 |
Total |
601.6 |
234018.9 |
0.389 |
640.4 |
175694.4 |
0.274 |
As described above, the establishment of vineyards in China is different from that of other countries in the world and most of the grape production is for table grapes. Although the wine industry has made rapid progress in recent years, the per capita production of wine remains small, as low as about 0.2 L per person. This production is far below the average wine consumption in the world (about 7 L per person) and does not satisfy the current consumption requirements of the Chinese people. This deficiency in production has resulted in the following situation in the country.
Firstly, many new wine companies and wineries have sprung up like mushrooms in recent years. There were about 240 wine companies and wineries by 1995, after a development phase spanning over a century in China, but an additional 200 wine companies and wineries were founded only during 1996 and 1997. The wine production capacity was almost doubled during these two years, mostly in Hebei, Shandong, Yunnan, Gansu, Ningxia, and Guangdong. Secondly, the area under cultivation of grapes increased rapidly all over the country, especially during the last two or three years. This rise in the cultivated area was essentially for wine grapes. Lastly, China experienced a sharp increase in wine imports, especially from European countries, with nearly 5,900 tonnes of wines being imported into China in 1996, which amounted to 7.7 times more than that of 1995. Import of wines continued to increase during the following years, exceeding 39,670 tonnes in 1997 and 49,840 tonnes in 1998.
The change in consumption habits of alcoholic beverages in modern China resulted in the above phenomenon. Chinese have a tradition of consuming alcoholic beverages, especially drinking of spirits distilled from sorghum and maize. This habit has been changing since the 1970s. Beer production in tonnage was more than 50 percent of the national alcoholic beverage production by the end of the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, consumption of wines has become a trend of the times. More and more people consumed wine instead of spirits and the demand for wine will continue to increase in the following years. China has, therefore, a high potential for grape development, especially for the wine industry. It is absolutely certain that the area under cultivation of grapes will continue to increase in the coming years. The margin between wine production and demand is still very wide. Nearly nine millions tonnes of wine would be required per year to satisfy the current national requirements if the average consumption of wine reaches that of world per capita consumption.
After continuous rapid development during the past twenty years, China has achieved great success in grape production. However, some problems arose at the same time as this rapid development of grape production in the country. Some of the salient problems have to be resolved if the country is to have a steady development of the grape industry in the future. Much more attention should therefore be paid to grape and wine quality rather than productivity, although the latter has been much improved during the last 10 years. Long-term planning for grape development in the whole country must be carried out in identifying new varieties, locating growing regions for new vineyards, and developing strategies for increasing production and processing into wine. Production of planting material has to be controlled by the Government for quality control purposes. Following the rapid increase of area under cultivation of grapes, it has been difficult to control the quality of plants by the Government. Moreover, many plants were imported mainly from European countries, such as 4.5 million cuttings from France in 1998. Monitoring the health of materials has therefore become a new problem for the grape industry in China. Both the grape production and wine industries need to be supported by the Government, research institutions and foreign companies with equipment, investments and advanced technologies.
The Government of China has paid considerable attention to grape production and winery development since the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. Two national grape germplasm repositories were set up at Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences (located at Zhengzhou, Henan province) and at the Institute of Fruit Research of Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (located at Taigu, Shanxi province). More than 1,300 varieties were collected in these two national grape germplasm repositories. Some varieties of grapes, mainly for table grapes, have been developed at the same time by Chinese researchers and breeders. Some of the popular Chinese varieties which have been cultivated or are being popularized are listed below:
Table Grapes: Zaomeigui, Zhengzhuo Zaohong, Fenghuang No 51, Jing Zaojing, Shangdong Zaohong, Jingxiu, Jingya, Zizhenxiang, Shengxiu, Jingyu, Fenghou;
Wine grapes: Beichun, Gongliang No 1, Shuangyou, Zuoshan No 1.
Moreover, many significant research findings have been made on identifying suitable agro-climatic zones for growing grapes (especially for wine grapes). Propagation of materials (including micro-propagation techniques), establishment of vineyards, training systems and pruning methods, fertilization and irrigation management, grape quality improvement, and table grape storage are some of the significant advances made in grape research.
The wine production in China is estimated to be over 300,000 tonnes by the year 2000. According to the wine consumption patterns in the last few years, the Government plans to achieve an annual increase of 50,000 tonnes in wine production in the coming 10 years. This means that China would produce 800,000 tonnes by 2010 and about 3,000 to 4,000 ha of wine grapes must be established each year in the future. In order to satisfy this increase of wine production in China, some emphasis would have to be made by the Government on controlling quality of planting material (by establishing the Propagation Centre for Grape Materials), planning a long-term programme for table grape and wine production in the whole country. The establishment of a wine grape industry and increasing the rate of the development of grape production by training farmers and controlling grape quality and wine quality are some of the important aspects of this strategy.
In the past 20 years, China has achieved great success in viticulture development. Grape production has increased sharply (in 1998 it was 22.7 times more than in 1978) and the quality of grapes has improved very much. China has still a great potential for developing viticulture and the wine industry. The area under cultivation of grapes and their production will continue to increase in the next few years. However, the emphasis on production development of wine grapes will be more rapid when compared to table grapes.
The author is grateful to Professor G.G. Luo (China Agricultural University) for his valuable suggestions and critical review of the manuscript and Mr. X.B. Wang (Agriculture Ministry) for providing valuable documents and information.


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are in a horrible crisis now. Many families are falling apart because of greed. Some would rather put profits before family. This generation is clearly suffering from a lack of social awareness. We need to stick together, as some families are slowly falling apart. Once upon a time, communities stuck together for support and I am sure this happens in some poor countries. The more we have the more selfish we become. The best way of life is one that is based on friendship, compassion and a desire to genuinely want to help one another. I am sure some people have got this well balanced life.The simple things in life, are often the best. Where is the LOVE?
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Very true. Everywhere people are as you say ,they have a genuine desire to help to be of use to others. Love is in each of us. We just need to get rid of the fear of being hurt and learn to give our love away... the more we'd give love the less we'd be hurt. Yes indeed we need to put the "I" to sleep and awake the inner self as "Us" .Thank you for share. I don't understand why is posted as anonimus wishe I could read some more stories of you..
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It's utterly appropriate that Ashcroft would head to the poster child for everything wrong with privatization to make sure it complies with some kind of ethics.
Let the Pork Barrel Soar: Ashcroft to Head Blackwater Ethics Committee |
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DC Circuit Reinstates Blackwater Nisour Shooting Prosecution |
By: bmaz Friday April 22, 2011 4:26 pm |
The first thing to consider here is the standard of review the Circuit Court used in analyzing the appeal, because there were intermixing of factual and legal findings inherent in the Kastigar process, the court reviewed for clear error
Raymond Davis' Work "with" the CIA |
By: emptywheel Monday February 21, 2011 5:45 pm |
After the Guardian confirmed for the Anglo-American world what the rest of the world had already concluded–that Raymond Davis is some kind of spook–the government gave the American outlets that have been sitting on this knowledge the go-ahead to publish it.
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By: Jim White Tuesday February 1, 2011 9:30 am |
We learn from Dawn.com Tuesday that Raymond Davis, a US "consular employee" who killed two men on Thursday in Lahore, has been placed on the exit control list, barring his exit from Pakistan. Remarkably, Representative Darrell Issa led a small Congressional delegation that met on Tuesday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, seeking release of Davis, according to Pakistan's Online International News Network. Those meetings came a day after State Department spokesman Philip Crowley declared that as a consular employee, Davis has full diplomatic immunity.
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By: Spencer Ackerman Friday October 1, 2010 4:35 pm |
The State Department's $10 billion, five-year contract with private security firms is finally out. Guess who's still a part of it?
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By: emptywheel Wednesday September 15, 2010 4:30 pm |
Given that the State Department gave Blackwater follow-on contracts after Blackwater failed to keep Bhutto safe, then have they at least done a real assessment of what went wrong? Last we heard from Blackwater publicly, they had a purportedly perfect record. But they don't. And no one told us that. If we're going to give another $120,000,000 to Blackwater, have we at least studied, first, what went wrong with Blackwater's notable failure with Bhutto?
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I'm not saying this is what's happening. But if I were a big spook, I'd love to have someone with the skill set of Prince, off in a haven protected from American law, setting up an entity that can do what Blackwater does but do so with neither the legal oversight (as if that did us a damn bit of good) nor the requirement to be paid in cash.


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How much equipment do you need for an experiment?
You are in charge of setting out the lab equipment for a chemistry experiment. If you have twenty students in the lab (and they will be working in teams of two) and the experiment calls for three beakers and two test tubes, how much glassware do you need to set out? Figuring this out involves a type of balanced equation and the sort of calculations you would do for a chemical reaction.
Everyday Stoichiometry
You have learned about chemical equations and the techniques used in order to balance them. Chemists use balanced equations to allow them to manipulate chemical reactions in a quantitative manner. Before we look at a chemical reaction, let's consider the equation for the ideal ham sandwich.
The ideal ham sandwich.
Our ham sandwich is composed of 2 slices of ham (H), a slice of cheese (C), a slice of tomato (T), 5 pickles (P), and 2 slices of bread (B). The equation for our sandwich is shown below:
Now let us suppose that you are having some friends over and need to make five ham sandwiches. How much of each sandwich ingredient do you need? You would take the number of each ingredient required for one sandwich (its coefficient in the above equation) and multiply by five. Using ham and cheese as examples and using a conversion factor, we can write:
The conversion factors contain the coefficient of each specific ingredient as the numerator and the formula of on sandwich as the denominator. The result is what you would expect. In order to make five ham sandwiches, you would need 10 slices of ham and 5 slices of cheese.
This type of calculation demonstrates the use of stoichiometry. Stoichiometry is the calculation of the amount of substances in a chemical reaction from the balanced equation. The sample problem below is another stoichiometry problem involving ingredients of the ideal ham sandwich.
Sample Problem: Ham Sandwich Stoichiometry
Kim looks in the refrigerator and finds that she has 8 slices of ham. In order to make as many sandwiches as possible, how many pickles does she need? Use the equation above.
Step 1: List the known quantities and plan the problem.
- have 8 ham slices (H)
- 2 H = 5 P (conversion factor)
- How many pickles (P) needed?
The coefficients for the two reactants (ingredients) are used to make a conversion factor between ham slices and pickles.
Step 2: Solve.
Since 5 pickles combine with 2 ham slices in each sandwich, 20 pickles are needed to fully combine with 8 ham slices.
Step 3: Think about your result.
The 8 ham slices will make 4 ham sandwiches. With 5 pickles per sandwich, the 20 pickles are used in the 4 sandwiches.
- An example of everyday stoichiometry is given.
Use the link below to answer the following questions:
- What does stoichiometry help you figure out?
- What are all reactions dependent upon?
- If I have ten hydrogen molecules and three oxygen molecules, how many molecules of water can I make?
- What will be left over and how much?
- I don't like pickles. What would my ideal ham sandwich be?
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TOKYO (ICIS)--Japan's exports of ethylene rose by 52% year on year to 86,600 tonnes in August, official data from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) showed on Wednesday.
The country's ethylene equivalent exports – which is the total for exported ethylene and the amount of ethylene contained in exported derivative products – stood at 217,600 tonnes, up 14% from the same time a year earlier, according to METI.
Of the total, exports of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) increased by 18% year on year to 13,143 tonnes, while exports of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) were down by 42% to 16,625 tonnes, the data showed.
Exports of styrene monomer (SM) stood at 87,324 tonnes, up 7.5% year on year, and exports of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) rose by 12% to 31,616 tonnes, according to the ministry.
Meanwhile, Japan's ethylene equivalent imports were down by 6.6% year on year to 54,100 tonnes in August, METI said.
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Queens of the Jungle: The leopard ladies of 'Melrose Place' (Lisa Rinna, left, and Heather Locklear) once again find themselves in the midst of the show's endless parade of scathing catfights while the show's resident stud attempts control.
Humpin', thumpin' and dumpin' on television's nastiest, tackiest shows
By Karen Reardanz
'FESS UP NOW: Even though society preaches the straight and narrow, sometimes our moral standing needs to take a breather, doesn't it? While we may not be willing to get all that down and dirty ourselves, we do like to watch others doing it. We live in a culture of trashy-trashy tabloids, rubberneckers slowing down at crash sites to see if the head's still attached, scab-pickers trying to feel if the pain's still there, those copping a vicarious feel at an illicit public tryst.
We take a perverse pleasure in other people's naughtiness, in other people's misery. And who better to exploit and cater to this human weakness than the grandest purveyor of white-trash sin--television.
Fox Broadcasting may just reign lord and master over this kingdom, more than happy to gratify that dark little troll living in us all. After all, it is the network that brought us years of Al Bundy and the dysfunctional Simpson family. But never has it done the dark side such justice as when it pits Melrose Place back to back against angry animals, tripped-up stuntmen and out-of-control police chases.
It's a world where everyone sleeps with everyone--even thy sister's husband is not above being coveted--and good rarely triumphs over evil. But all those evildoers look so damn good. From the moment the micro-mini-powersuit-clad Amanda beckoned her wayward hot stud of a boyfriend, Jake, into her office, then proceeded to boink him on her desk in a round of make-up sex, America was hooked and the Melrose Place writers never looked back.
There's a degree of smugness and security satisfied in living vicariously through a TV show. Why bed your best friend's husband when Melrose's Sydney can do it for you? Why drug a good doctor into making him believe he's blacking out and ruthlessly beating his paramour? Why institutionalize your rival's husband, then come this close to having him lobotomized when the folks of Melrose can do it six times better than you ever could?
Elk Scent Revenge
FOX PUSHES THE LINE between good and bad taste even further when it sporadically, and ingeniously, pairs Melrose Place with such exploitation shows as When Animals Attack, When Stunts Go Bad and The World's Scariest Police Chases. Born out of the jerk-on-the-street concept of America's Funniest Home Videos and Cops, Fox takes it to the limit, daring the American viewing public to watch just how trashy it can get.
Addictive, vile and morally reprehensible, these shows are simply some of the most entertaining hours on television. Where else can you see irritating people toy with nature and get their comeuppance or confirm your hunch that a guy really can't jump over 10 motor homes with a BMX doused in gasoline and walk away with nary a scratch?
There's a certain amount of satisfaction in watching some idiot saturate himself in elk scent, creep up on the mighty creature, then recoil in amazed horror when the animal whacks the bejesus out of him while his wife captures the whole thing on the camcorder. Maybe no one really deserves such violence, but most people wouldn't hesitate to admit the guy was asking for it.
And is it ever fun to watch.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that few of the victims ever die--almost all remain to narrate the video or cheesy re-enactments. Granted, most survivors are filmed from the neck up, not ruling out the possibility they're paralyzed or without arms and legs, but this is not the point. We need to believe that they've tempted the fates, been absolved and emerged remotely unscathed. Isn't that how America's supposed to be?
Just think how this weekly dose of Monday nastiness tames the inner beast. One can only shudder to think what the state of civilization would be like were it not for devilish Melrose Place or the borderline psychotic re-enactment shows. So it's crude and tasteless. So it has no redeeming value. So what? It's entertainment, baby. And nobody does it better.
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17 Sep 2012 5:33 AM #1
Answered: How to select a record of a treepanel with the record id ?
Answered: How to select a record of a treepanel with the record id ?
I would like to select a record of a tree panel with the record id. Is it possible?
I have that (doesn't work):
PHP Code:treePanel.getSelectionModel().select(treePanel.getStore().getById(id));
Best Answer Posted by vietits
You should use getNodeById() instead of getById():
17 Sep 2012 5:44 AM #2
ID type
ID type
Is that the String ID that you are passing it?
If so you need to change it to number as it expects a number in place of Id
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I don't think this is the problem, because
PHP Code:id = record.data.fil_id
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The problem persist. I've read several things in the docs, but there is not much methods that returns a model. I say model, because the select method either take a model or an index. And I don't want an index because the tree is supposed to be closed, and open itself to the concerned directory.
18 Sep 2012 11:26 PM #5
19 Sep 2012 12:27 AM #6
You should use getNodeById() instead of getById():
19 Sep 2012 12:32 AM #7
That's working ! Thanks !
By the way do you know how can I open the treestore to the selected record?
EDIT: Get it :PHP Code:treePanel.expandPath(treePanel.getStore().getNodeById(record.data.fil_id).getPath());


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Press Cuttings : 1957 Press Cuttings
Item type: Press CuttingsArchive reference: YMP/F/3
Date/year: 1957
Eileen Skaife (who played Woman by the Fire) kept cuttings in her 1957 scrapbook about the plays.
For a cutting about selected actors recording part of the Plays for the Home Service, see 1957 Scrapbook.
Below is a cutting about that year's wagon play, organised by teacher Stewart Lack, who played God. (He also played Peter in the main pageant.)
Heading: Exodus entertains York crowds
"Crowds soon gathered at the West Front of York Minster on Monday evening for the first performance of the Pageant Play The Exodus, which is being given every night during the Festival there and at the second 'station' in Kings' Square. For a moment medieval pageantry and colour returned to the streets of York - with the proclamation read by a mounted herald (Police Constable A. E. Sykes) accompanied by a number of attendants and with the colourful yet simple setting on the wagon. The three masters and boys of Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School presented a remarkably competent production which brought back some of the original spirit of the plays. Time and scene are changed rapidly as the play moves from Pharoah preparing to repress the Jews to Moses' warning from God, on to the plagues on Egypt and finally to the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. Kenneth Parsons is a commanding Pharoah and Michael Vonberg is good as the more simple yet strong character of Moses. Stewart Lack plays the part of God. The parts of the various Egyptians and Jews are played by Peter Aysters, Rodney Briggs, Donald Nicholson, Maurice Sellars, Frank Dobson, Roy Harris, Derek Langley, Keith Elliott, Geoffrey Corney and Keith Laverack."
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Learn about growing Kaneb, Eureka and Nekan wildflowers, hardy plants that will grow anywhere.
"It is a bad soil where no flowers will grow," said Thomas Fuller in 1732. Working on that premise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has "domesticated" three grow-anywhere prairie wildflowers and begun selling certified seed to commercial growers (see addresses below). The good news for gardeners is that beginning this fall, these growers will offer the wildflower seeds to the general public for the first time.
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If you like lavender, you'll love Eureka. This wildflower — a lovely lavender gay-feather that requires no maintenance and can grow up to five feet tall — was developed to beautify highways, but it can easily be adapted to home gardens, driveways, fences, etc.
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November 2008
CJ Ratterman is named Outstanding Staff Editor for DJILP Issue 37.1.
The Legal Rhetoric and Women and the Law programs of American University Washington College of Law are pleased to announce the winner of the 2008 Alice Paul Feminist Jurisprudence Essay Contest.
Congratulations to Michelle Larson-Krieg, J.D. Candidate, 2009- University of Denver, Sturm College of Law author of "Comparable Worth in Minnesota and Ontario: Implications for U.S. Policy."
To view winning essays and submit an entry for the 2009 contest visit www.wcl.american.edu/gender/wlp.
October 2008
Environmental and Natural Resources Graduate Program Scholarships Announced
Denver – Two important scholarships associated with the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Graduate Program have been announced.
Kathleen E. Marks, who directs the energy program at the National Conference of State Legislatures, has been awarded the 2008 Col. Jan Laitos Scholarship. Ms. Marks is pursuing a Masters in Resources Law Studies.
Gabriela Rodrigues, a licensed attorney in Brazil, has been awarded the 2008 Marilyn G. Alkire Scholarship. Ms. Rodrigues is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Natural Rseources Law & Policy.
"Ms. Marks and Ms. Rodrigues are excellent recipients of these two prestigious scholarships," Don C. Smith, director of the program, said. "Both Kathleen and Gabriela respectively will make major contributions to the careful development of natural resources bearing in mind the need to protect the environment for future generations. We are delighted to have students of their caliber and wide-ranging experience in our program."
Each autumn the winners of the Marilyn G. Alkire and Col. Jan Laitos scholarships are announced. These honors are among the most important scholarships awarded by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Graduate Program.
The final round of the Daniel S. Hoffman Trial Advocacy Competition was a magnificent demonstration of skilled trial advocacy. Congratulations to this year's winners and other top performers in the Daniel S. Hoffman Trial Advocacy Competition:
- Jed Greenblatt & Sheena Moran
- Claire Soto & John (Trey) Baker
Other Semi-Finalists
- Theresa Sauer & Alison Davis
- Chad Grell & Matt Dardenne
Best Orator
- Sheena Moran
Best Witness
- Robyn Schaperjahn
September 2008
2008 ABA Negotiations Competition Winners
- 1st Place: Theresa Sauer and Matt Faga
- 2nd Place: Megan Marlatt and Heidi Bastoky
Our winners will represent the University of Denver in the ABA Regional Competition in Omaha, NE. Good Luck from the Moot Court Board!
Please join me in congratulating the winners of the 2008 Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons Negotiation Competition:
- Matt Faga and Theresa Sauer;
- Heidi Bastoky and Megan Marlatt
These two winning teams will represent the University of Denver Sturm College of Law at the American Bar Association's Regional Negotiation Competition in November.
Each of the following teams won their pool in Saturday's competition:
- Pool 1: Julia Scott and Alison Eastley
- Pool 2: Matt Faga and Theresa Sauer
- Pool 3: Geoff Frazier and Jeff Lindsey
- Pool 4: Heidi Bastoky and Megan Marlatt
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Restaurants America will open a "new concept" in the 5,910-square-foot space at Mockingbird Station in Dallas recently vacated by Vapiano. Currently Restaurants America is operating Primebar in Uptown and Townhouse Kitchen + Bar in North Dallas. The multi-concept restaurant company operates seven brands and around 20 in Illinois and, Texas and Florida. Waiting on a callback from corporate headquarters to find out which concept will open in Mockingbird Station. (People empty your voice mail!!)
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on the title to order - huge discounts and free shipping through Amazon.com! The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Good classic British comedy The DVD set, which was released on May 5, of the three series (my people call them seasons) of the mid-1970s Britcom "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" is an amusing fable about the futility of seeking happiness. Perrin, who is the character seeking this bliss, is a suburban middle-aged, middle-class, middle manager. On a broad level, the show has many similarities with "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in that it has a bizarre tone, clever writing, and some very fast dialogue. The show also adds in a touch of bedroom farce. Each season is a distinct chapter in Perrin's life. He is stuck in a rut regarding his life and his job at a failing dessert manufacturer when we meet him and endures absurd situations that include a 24-hour maintenance department being closed and learning that his coat rack has more hooks than the company has authorized. This season has a handful of Walter Mitty-like fantasy sequences in which Perrin daydreams about a better life, and an ongoing joke regarding office chairs that emit flatulence-like sounds is one of the Pythonesque elements of these episodes. Season two begins with Perrin getting to experience the common fantasy of restarting his life with a new identity, finding that that has not solved his problems, and starting a new company that profits from selling people absolutely worthless items for ridiculously high prices. Silent record albums turn out to be a popular product. Perrin then spends most of the third season trying to counsel other people who are seeking the same fulfillment that eludes him. The therapy includes non-competitive sports such as boxing matches in which each opponent hits himself instead of the other person. The DVD also has an entertaining documentary on the career of British star Leonard Rossiter who plays Perrin. Learning more about a star who is not known well in the colonies was a nice treat. A Christmas sketch that was filmed three years after the program ended fell more flat. Several minutes of this short presentation involved the same joke about colleagues and relatives of Perrin dropping in uninvited on Christmas morning and expressing concern for his welfare. Hearing more about the lives of the characters in the years since the show ended would have been more interesting. Please do share your thoughts regarding this show as e-mail to email@example.com. TV on DVD Reviews: |
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WASHINGTON — A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings on Monday, declaring them in line with long national traditions though the country has grown more religiously diverse.
The content of the prayers is not significant as long as they do not denigrate non-Christians or try to win converts, the court said in a 5-4 decision backed by its conservative majority.
Though the decision split the court along ideological lines, the Obama administration backed the winning side, the town of Greece, N.Y., outside of Rochester.
The outcome relied heavily on a 1983 decision in which the court upheld an opening prayer in the Nebraska Legislature and said prayer is part of the nation's fabric, not a violation of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of religion.
Writing for the court on Monday, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that forcing clergy to scrub the prayers of references to Jesus Christ and other sectarian religious figures would turn officials into censors. Instead, Kennedy said, the prayers should be seen as ceremonial and in keeping with the nation's traditions.
"The inclusion of a brief, ceremonial prayer as part of a larger exercise in civic recognition suggests that its purpose and effect are to acknowledge religious leaders and the institutions they represent, rather than to exclude or coerce nonbelievers," Kennedy said.
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court's four liberal justices, said, "I respectfully dissent from the court's opinion because I think the Town of Greece's prayer practices violate that norm of religious equality — the breathtakingly generous constitutional idea that our public institutions belong no less to the Buddhist or Hindu than to the Methodist or Episcopalian."
Kagan said the case differs significantly from the 1983 decision because "Greece's town meetings involve participation by ordinary citizens, and the invocations given — directly to those citizens — were predominantly sectarian in content."
Kennedy himself was the author of an opinion in 1992 that held that a Christian prayer delivered at a high school graduation did violate the Constitution. The justice said Monday there are differences between the two situations, including the age of the audience and the fact that attendees at the council meeting may step out of the room if they do not like the prayer.
In her dissent, Kagan said the council meeting prayers are unlike those said to open sessions of Congress and state legislatures, where the elected officials are the intended audience. In Greece, "the prayers there are directed squarely at the citizens," she said.
Kagan also noted what she described as the meetings' intimate setting, with 10 or so people sitting in front of the town's elected and top appointed officials. Children and teenagers are likely to be present, she said.
Kennedy and his four colleagues in the majority all are Catholic. They are: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
Kagan was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. Of the four, three are Jewish and Sotomayor is Catholic.
Senior counsel David Cortman of the Alliance Defense Freedom, which represented the town, applauded the court for affirming "that Americans are free to pray."
Ayesha Khan, legal director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the court disregarded the interests of religious minorities and nonbelievers. But Khan said she saw a "silver lining" in the outcome because the court rejected a more sweeping ruling that would have made it even harder to prove a violation of the Constitution.
A federal appeals court in New York had ruled that Greece violated the Constitution by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that focused on Christianity.
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Organizing the Unknown – Applying Taxonomy to Discovery through Sophia Search
We all know that taxonomy-based solutions are core and integral to creating business opportunities and solving business problems in our worlds of information. Yet, there are some areas that taxonomy cannot model, and so seemingly can be of no help whatsoever to some unlucky owners of certain business "problems". For instance, organizing what we don't know. That seems straightforward and uncontroversial. Surely we cannot organize what we don't know?
And yet … undiscovered and/or so-far-unknown relevance hold value for the first discoverers. There are whole areas of business problems and opportunities hidden in discovery for litigation or in ultra-early stage science and research, to call out just two. So, logically, if topics and their unknown connections could be discovered on the emergent edge or in massive heterogeneous corpora or joined sets of documents – then taxonomy-based organization could be brought to bear, with all the attendant benefits we know of so well.
I had lunch recently with Jeff Bierach, VP of Sales for Sophia Search (http://www.sophiasearch.com/home), an early-stage start-up with buzz and promising solutions. Sophia Search – the "Search" part of the name is really a misnomer – do automatic clustering of documents into integral clusters that are relatively free of "noise" (bad cluster inclusion), have clean distinction between clusters and make relevant sense. And, they seem to do this very well, indeed.
Now, automatic clustering of documents into a taxonomy (or "clusteronomy") has a long and often less than storied track record in creating easy-to-apply business opportunities out of information chaos. We all know the formal reasons for this – clusters are not unitary "concepts", automatic "good" labeling of the cluster is impossible, there is no pervasive subsumption relationship between child and parent clusters, clusters share concepts, "hide" concepts … and so on. Of course, from the point of view of an automatic clustering/categorization vendor taxonomies built by human intelligence (and blood, sweat and tears) also have their downsides. Such is life …
And yet – Sophia Search does clustering very well. First, let's share the experimental proof and then let's start a conversation on the implications. Sophia Search took the New York Times corpus of content – 1.8 million items – and clustered it. They discovered/created 19,000 clusters, and from that 418 high-level Sophia tags. They then compared these 418 clusters to the already hand-tagged NYT documents (the NYT corpus is a tagged corpus as are most large newspaper corpora).
There are some powerful findings. For example 64% of the documents with the Sophia tag "Market" were already hand-tagged by the NYT with "Corporations". That is indeed a reassuring congurence. Similarly, 92% of the documents with the Sophia tag "Music" were already hand-tagged by the NYT with their tag "Music". That all starts to look a very nice starting place for those business problems that have as a first (big) bite a set of documents, and thus topics, with as yet important but unknown connections.
For the well-named, well-conceptualized, organization of automatic clusters into robust taxonomy current methods and tools will work nicely. Discovery – once it is discovered – can be mapped and mapped very well, with all kinds of attendant business benefits. But, if you are pre- successful discovery, then this kind of hybrid knowledge organization model – melding automatic clustering that really "works" with best practices taxonomy development that always works – is well worth considering. Sophia Search appear to offer the missing link in this kind of hybrid knowledge organization model for those who have business issues or opportunities around "The Information Edge" – discovery (of what? who knows, but you know "it" is there), unknown connections, emerging connections etc.


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http://ruralweb.info initiative, to create just that. But if a similar site already exists, I would really like to know. #ICT4D
Do you know a website that I can direct people from developing countries to, to learn basic ICT skills without much further assistance? If not, I started the
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Weckwerth, Tammy M. and Wilson, James W. and Hagen, Martin and Emerson, Tracy J. and Pinto, James O. and Rifea, Daran L. and Grebe, Leslie (2011) Radar climatology of the COPS region. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137, pp. 31-41. DOI: 10.1002/qj.747.
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A climatology of convection initiation (CI) and convective enhancements (CE) has been developed using radar reflectivity data in southwestern Germany and eastern France over the period of May�August of 2000�2006 and 2008. The study region included the Vosges Mountains of France, the Rhine Valley which straddles France and Germany, the Black ForestMountains and the SwabianMountains of Germany. Convection occurred frequently during the summer months throughout the study region. The CI density (number of initiations per square km) illustrates preferential formation in the mountain regions while the CE events spanned both mountains and valleys nearly equally. There is a strongmid-day peak of the CI events suggesting that diurnal heating is critical for CI in the region. The very strong thunderstorms (>46 dBZ) first occurred in the mountains and �2 h later in the Rhine Valley. During the summer of 2007, the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) field campaign was conducted with the objective of obtaining improved understanding of convective processes and short-term quantitative precipitation forecasting in low-mountain regions. Comparisons were made between the radar climatology results and the COPS summer. The COPS summer exhibited preferential CI density in the mountainous regions but not as pronounced as the climatology. The COPS summer had a similar diurnal peak of CI events as climatology but the ratio of daytime to nighttime CI (1.7), or amplitude of the diurnal cycle, was less than that of climatology (3.0). While both the 8-year climatology and COPS summer were dominated by daytime, locally-forced CI occurrences, the broad distribution of daytime CI events and increase in nighttime events observed during COPS indicate a more active synoptic pattern in 2007.
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From the Editor: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Social Media Report
Using Social Media apps for Customer Service
iView: My iPhone Stops Working at CES
To the Rescue: Blood Pressure Monitoring and Full Body Massage!
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The Next-Gen iPad
With a slew of new tablets hitting the market, will Apple's latest version of the iPad keep it on top?
Verizon iPhone
To switch or not to switch… that is the question.
Apple's Innovative Evolution
How Apple is facing the "innovator's dilemma"
Tips for iOS
Hidden features that make the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad more powerful
iTunes in Focus
Using "Tags" to Control Your iTunes Music
Amazing Camera Apps
Add barcode readers, augmented reality, fax, language translation, heart rate monitor, and more to your iPhone or 4th gen iPod touch
Turn your iPad into a Modern, Mobile Planetarium
Mac Games Gone Mobile
4 Great games that started on the Mac and made their way to the iOS platform
Monitor your Data Usage
Kansas City Art Museum Adopts the iPod touch for Tours
Apps Expand Museum Horizons
Museums are adopting iOS apps to provide visitors with a more immersive and enjoyable experience.
Accessories for Special Needs
These accessories optimize the iPad for special needs users
Home Automation
Wireless home automation accessories and apps put you in control of your home environment
Power Grab
A look at some top energy accessories for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
Power and Innovation on Display at CES 2011!
Why You'll Like Apple's Cloud Computing
Backpacking in South America
From the depths of the Amazon Rain Forest to heights of Machu Picchu, the iPhone comes in handy!
Using the iPhone 4 at Sea
Rapidly evolving changes in electronic navigational systems
Writing and Publishing to Blogs from the iPad
From brainstorming to publishing, the iPad excels as a serious writing machine.
Secret Pleasures of iReading
The iPhone, iPad, and eBook reader apps have changed the way we read
Barcode Scanners
Apps and accessories that turn your iPhone into a portable scanner
Using the iPad to Sell Iron
Apple's new iPad has technology-lovers buzzing— but salespeople should also take heed
Your Pocket Sales Coach
Apps that turn the iPhone into a powerful, personal, real-time sales coach
The Inevitability of the iPhone in the Enterprise
Welcoming Change While Protecting the Enterprise
Enterprise Mobility Overhaul: Lessons Learned
Can your iPhone Run a Database App?
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Video: Ca$h Out – Im Different Freestyle
Ca$h Out shoots a visual for his freestyle over 2 Chainz's single 'Im Different'. The artwork for his new mixtape "Keisha" can be seen above. The full thing hits the net on December 18th.
Watch the video below.
Previously: Ca$h Out Ft Gucci Mane – The Curb (Video)


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Explore Poland Fact file Getting there Where to go When to go Getting around Accommodation Food and drink Culture and etiquette Sports and outdoor activities Travel essentials Share Several budget airlines fly into Warsaw and Kraków, Poland's two most popular cities, but there are also an increasing number of flights into Gdańsk, Wrocław and Poznań from major Western European destinations. Poland has rail connections with all its neighbouring countries. Several direct trains arrive daily in both Kraków and Warsaw from Prague, Budapest and Vienna, while Poznań, Wrocław and Warsaw all have regular connections to Germany. Several Polish bus companies, including Eurolines (t 22/621 3469, w http://www.eurolines.pl), provide services from all major European capitals to Warsaw, KrakÓw, Gdańsk and other Polish cities. On the southern border, there are daily public buses to Zakopane from the Slovakian resort of Poprad. Read More
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